Thursday, April 16, 2015
7 Questions for Community Engagement
1. Does your church have a front porch? Most churches don’t have any vestibules to their community. Is your church a third place for your community?
2. Is your church pedestrian friendly? Most churches are more car friendly than walk friendly or bike friendly, with easy-to-find parking lots and hard-to-find walkways and bike paths.
3. Are you setting a table for your neighborhood? The church can do potlucks, but can you do block parties? Have you ever considered turning your parking lot into a tailgating party? I call church tailgating parties “tale-gating” parties.
4. Does your church love its ZIP code enough to cry over it? Jesus cried over a person (Lazarus) and a place (Jerusalem). Does your church know its ZIP code enough to cry over it? How can you help your people to become topophiliacs (lovers of a place)? Keep reading
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